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CIA mystery: Did Iran kill ‘Ayatollah Mike?’

7th February, 2020 · admin

Asia Times: Nobody is talking after Michael D’Andrea, the CIA’s top Iran Mission Center chief, is allegedly killed in plane crash –  A USAF Bombardier E11A intelligence gathering jet was cruising over Afghanistan on a secret mission, transporting two crewmen and allegedly, a mysterious chain-smoking CIA operative, Michael D’Andrea — also known as Dark Prince

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Posted in Iran-Afghanistan Relations, Other News, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Is Afghan Intelligence Building a Regime of Terror With the CIA’s Help?

7th February, 2020 · admin

Foreign Policy: As dissidents are attacked and murdered, critics liken the National Directorate of Security to the brutal intelligence service of the Afghan communists in the 1980s. When Nazar Mohammad Motmaeen talks about the National Directorate of Security (NDS), the Afghan intelligence service with close ties to the CIA, he becomes nervous. “They are dangerous,

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Posted in Human Rights, Security, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: CIA activities in Afghanistan, NDS |
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The Return Of Pro-Iranian Militia Fighters To Afghanistan Fuels Fears In Kabul, Washington

7th February, 2020 · admin

Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 7, 2020 When Syria’s civil war erupted, Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) recruited, trained, and deployed thousands of Shi’ite fighters to prop up the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Among them was the Fatemiyoun Brigade, comprised mainly of Afghans from the country’s Shi’ite Hazara minority. From

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Posted in Iran-Afghanistan Relations, Security, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Fatemiyoun Brigade |
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U.S. Citizen Believed Kidnapped In Eastern Afghanistan

7th February, 2020 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 7, 2020 U.S. officials say an American appears to have been kidnapped in Afghanistan by a group linked to Taliban militants. The officials on February 6 said they believe that 57-year-old Mark Frerichs of Illinois was kidnapped by the Haqqani network, which is based in Khost. It was not immediately

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Khost, Kidnapping |
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Taliban Says Closing Afghan War Needs ‘Actions Not Words’ From Trump

5th February, 2020 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News February 5, 2020 ISLAMABAD – U.S. President Donald Trump in the State of the Union address has endorsed peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan, saying his administration is working to end America’s longest war to bring troops back home from that country. The Afghan insurgent group swiftly responded to Tuesday

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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85 percent of bombs used in Afghanistan originate from Pakistan: retired US general

4th February, 2020 · admin

1TV: Speaking at a Heritage Foundation event this week, Jack Keane, a former vice chief of staff of the US Army, said that Pakistan’s intelligence service and its army have been supporting the Taliban. He said that Pakistan was harboring the Taliban at Miramshah and Quetta and it supported two fertilizer factories where 85 percent

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban |
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Pompeo to Taliban: Demonstrate capacity to reduce violence

3rd February, 2020 · admin

  Press TV February 3, 2020 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has demanded “demonstrable evidence” from the Taliban that they have the capacity to reduce violence before signing a deal to end America’s longest war, even though official military figures show that in the last quarter of 2019 the US dropped a record number

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Afghan Rights Group Investigating Video Of Woman Being Stoned To Death

3rd February, 2020 · admin

Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 3, 2020 Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) says it is investigating video footage that shows an Afghan woman being stoned to death. The two-minute clip shows a group of men throwing rocks at a covered woman who is lying in a hole that has been dug in

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Security, Taliban |
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US-Taliban ‘Peace’ Process Yields Record Level of Violence

2nd February, 2020 · admin

Michael Hughes: It may seem enigmatic that during the same period the U.S. government and Taliban made unprecedented progress towards a peace agreement they unleashed unprecedented levels of violence. This is not a mysterious paradox, however, but a direct – and predictable – result of the so-called “fighting and talking” strategy that both sides have

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Opinion/Editorial, Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Violent attacks in Afghanistan surged to record levels in late 2019: US report

31st January, 2020 · admin

Press TVJanuary 31, 2020 A US government watchdog has announced a surge in violent attacks in its war in Afghanistan, saying they climbed to record levels in the last quarter of 2019. “Enemy-initiated attacks” rose sharply last year, with the fourth quarter seeing a total of 8,204 attacks — up from 6,974 in the same

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Posted in Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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